Class VI. ASTERIAS. SEA-STAR. 135 



- ■■ -lis 



Gm. Lin. 3l60. 



xvii. fg. 28. 



/ai. 



xxxii. 24. Pappo- 



Stella dodecactis Helianthemo 



similis, Linckii, p. 42. tah. 



/^•52. . 





SA. 



Twelve-rayecL 



AsT. with twelve broad rays finely reticulated, 

 and roughened with fasciculated long papilla on 

 the upper part ; hirsute beneath ; red. 



These vary into thirteen, such as the Triscai- 

 decactis of Linckius. tab. xxxiv. Jig. 54. I 

 have had one of fourteen rays. 



Asterias caput medusse. Lin. Linckii, t. IB. f. 29. t. IQ. y". 25. Caput 

 Syit. 1101. Gm. Lin. 3167. 30, t. 20. f. 32. Medusa. 



Soe-Soele. Pontop. Norway, 

 ii. 180. 



AsT. with five rays issuing from an angular 

 body; the rays dividing into innumerable 

 branches, growing slenderer as they recede 

 from the base ; the most curious of the genus. 



Found in the north of Scotland. The late 

 worthy Doctor IVilliam Borlase informed me 

 that it had been taken off Cornwall. 



Aristotle and Pliny* called this genus Ao-rij^, 



* Aristot. Hist. An. lib. v. c. 15. Plinii Hist. Nat. lib. x. 

 c. 60. 



